Yeap, its a promotion attempt. It isn't bull - it'd be silly to think you guys aren't intelligent enough to see the promotion effect

For those who already own an Axon, and already have a robot using it, and will probably upload a video on youtube of it anyway, its a chance to get some money back. Almost everyone who entered the tutorial contests (and actually wrote a tutorial) have won a prize, so your chances of winning in this contest are fairly high.

ps - I split this topic off from the original. Questions are banned in that topic, as per the first line

Or buy and axon and win an axon II. Not that I recently did that or anything. Also this is the 6th contest. So that's 5 previous non-axon specific ones that you could have competed in. Really I got second place in a contest with 3 people in it and 3 prizes... Consider the axon purchase the entry fee or something. Admin does this out of pocket to better the site/community so its his prerogative to promote his own designs once in a while

Or maybe I was not able to enter the last five and this being my first one I was able to do I was looking forward to making a really good tutorial.

Sadly only people with a substancial amount of money can enter (from my perspective I would spend $94 on so many other things before I spent it on a chance to make six bucks) so really this contest is only for people who have already given admin money regardless of tutorial content.

Ok admin I'm gonna run this by you before I do anything although it's completely within the rules.

I want to do a tutorial about solar energy as it pertains to robotics. However after I found out about the axon requirement I couldn't do it.Now I plan on doing the tutorial and just having the axon 'featured' in it just like you said here:

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It can be about anything you want, as long as the Axon is featured in it.

The main thought here is: Do I actually have to present a physical axon in the video or can I just have a representation of it? (ex. saying "This solar power system can supply even powerful microcontrollers such as the Axon or Axon II..." and maybe some pictures)

z.s.tar.gz, it doesn't need to be a tutorial. It could just be a fun robot video and you somehow point out that the Axon is being used. Although I would prefer a tutorial showing how the Axon is used for your project (in whatever way), its not required.

A physical representation would be needed, otherwise what you say about it wouldn't hold much weight.

I think for as much of his life Admin poured into making this website great, having tutorial contests he supplies the prizes for, and doing a relatively decent job of staying neutral in the face of newbs asking which uC is best, Admin gets a little product placement every now and again.

And remember, there's always the next contest you could be getting ready for! And maybe if you (Zach) tried a little nudging, Admin could make it be green energy themed!!!

Oh, I would love that! Many of us discussed the use of solar panels for charging our robots or even installed on the robot for a slow charge. I think it would be a good way people would start thinking to find ways to have their robot use only green energy, no alkaline batteries and no main powered charging stations (even if it is manually connected to the robot). But of course, I am a little biased, as I am currently building such robots. No Axon involved though.

I was going to be building a project this summer that would be mobile and then make a tutorial for it for the tresson robotics contest, I am sure you would appreciate us using your MC in another contest.

Anyways are there any more MCs available because if we use one I guess we could enter into both competitions. Also, will there be multiple prizes because there are already two really good entries that we would not be able to hold up against.

This will be our first project using an actual MC rather than synthesizing one through use of an FPGA, do you guys suggest using the axon or going with a different company first...try not to be too biased...